From Shakespeare to Existentialism
by Walter Arnold Kaufmann
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Book Description: Explores such themes as philosophy versus poetry, post-World War II German thought, art, tradition, and truth in a collection of essays.Tags
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Philosophic reflections on thinkers from Shakespeare to Toynbee with many others along the way provide erudite material for the reader to ponder. Seldom does one find such deep thoughts about a disparate collection of authors and thinkers as found in this collection of essays.
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- Original publication date
- 1959
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- Shakespeare: Between Socrates and Existentialism -- That history is at least often written from a point of view -- and that the Nazis and the Communists developed different accounts, not only of the past, but of the whole dev... (show all)elopment from ancient Greece to modern times -- is now a commonplace. But that a warped and tendentious view of the present age and its relation to the past is current in our midst and more indebted to Christianity than to any political ideology requires showing.
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- English
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